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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Discrimination & the law

In some jurisdictions, punitive laws and policies increase people’s vulnerability to HIV. In other jurisdictions, the law protects human rights and defends people against unfair treatment in employment, in healthcare and when using services.

Employment

Outrage at Guangdong plan to ban teachers with HIV and STDs

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South China Morning Post
8 January 2013
Discrimination & the law

Israeli physicians could get green light to deny HIV treatment

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Haaretz
8 January 2013
Prisoners

Alabama to End Isolation of Inmates With HIV

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New York Times
3 January 2013
Discrimination & the law

The Eurasian Coalition on Male Health urges the governments of Eastern Europe and Central Asia to stop the adoption of laws prohibiting `homosexual propaganda`

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EATG
12 December 2012
Employment

Qatar making progress fighting AIDS 'taboo'

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Al Jazeera
7 December 2012
Discrimination & the law

NYC Realtors Guilty of Discriminating Against People With AIDS

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Poz magazine news
6 December 2012
Discrimination & the law

HIV-positive Koreans worry about being shut out of employment

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The Hankyoreh
30 November 2012
Travel

Ahead of World AIDS Day CEOs call to end HIV travel restrictions

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UNAIDS
28 November 2012
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

African civil society calls on President Museveni to veto the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill

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ARASA
28 November 2012
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Serbia man wins false HIV compensation

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The Nation
26 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

China bans hospitals from refusing patients with HIV-AIDS

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Xinhua
24 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

UK government decision to abolish equality impact assessments

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Disability Rights UK
21 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

China: Man hides HIV status to obtain surgery

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South China Morning Post
21 November 2012
Employment

Military Reverses Course on HIV+ People Serving Overseas

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OutServe
20 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

Nigeria: I Was Told I'll Die 17 Yrs Ago - HIV Positive Nurse

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AllAfrica
28 October 2012
Discrimination & the law

New bylaw to help HIV/AIDS patients

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Google Alerts HIV
18 September 2012
Discrimination & the law

US: Hershey School settles with boy denied admission because of HIV

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Philadelphia Inquirer
13 September 2012
Prisoners

Alabama could have avoided a lawsuit if it had stopped segregating HIV-positive inmates

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Birmingham News (editorial)
13 September 2012
HIV & criminal law

A Free Man: HIV+ man, David Plunkett Finally Released after being wrongly convicted for biting police officer

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The Body
22 August 2012
Discrimination & the law

People with HIV fear unfair treatment in courts

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American Independent
10 August 2012
Young people

The Milton Hershey School apologizes to HIV-positive student

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Philadelphia Enquirer
7 August 2012
Discrimination & the law

Zimbabwe Woman Fights Conviction of Deliberately Transmitting HIV

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Voice of America
3 August 2012
Religion & faith

Catholic Church in Scotland: Society ‘should not facilitate gay relationships’

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Pink News
27 July 2012
Employment

HIV Employment Discrimination Still an Issue in US, UK

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POZ
27 July 2012